SECURITY ALERT – Phishing email with subject “Webmail Technical Crew”

Please do not respond to any email that requests you to confirm your account credentials, or to provide confidential information like credit card numbers, passwords or other personal data.

It is particularly important to never send your password to anyone by email or to use your Ryerson password to log into a non-Ryerson system. Make sure the URL in your browser’s location field is my.ryerson.ca, mail.ryerson.ca or some other name that ends with .ryerson.ca before entering using your Ryerson password.

A recent phishing email was sent to the Ryerson community; it was sent from a non-Ryerson email address requesting you to confirm your mail identity by clicking on a URL link.

If you receive an email like this one with a subject line that reads “*Webmail Technical Crew*”, please do not respond and delete it from your mailbox immediately.

– Computing and Communications Services

A VERSION OF THE PHISHING E-MAIL FOLLOWS:

From: Marco ten Hoor
To:
Date: 4/6/2011 6:56 PM
Subject: Webmail Technical Crew

Your email Has Exceeded The Set Quota/Limit Which Is 20GB.
Your Are Currently Running On 23GB Due To Hidden Files And Folder On
Your Mailbox and There Will Be An Upgrade In Our Data Base And E-mail
Center We Are Deleting All Unused Mail Accounts.You Are Required To Verify
Your Mail Account By Confirming Your Mail Identity. CLICK HERE
to update account now This Will
Prevent Your Mail Account From Been Closed During This Exercise
Please Validate Your Mailbox And Increase Your Quota.

Webmail Technical Crew

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